Declaration of Independence - Explain Concepts
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19 Nsɛmmisa
Hyɛ no nsow a efi ɔkyerɛwfo no hɔ:
Close Read of the Declaration of Independence
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Close Read of the Declaration of Independence
Directions:
1. Using your dictionary, look up the following words.
2. Add definitions in the space provided.
3. Use each word in an original sentence
Impel
Use impel in a sentence:
endow
Use endow in a sentence:
derive
Use derive in a sentence:
consent
Use consent in a sentence:
usurpation
Use usurp or usurpation in a sentence:
absolute
Use absolute in a sentence:
dissolve
Use dissolve in a sentence:
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the
political bands which have connected them with another,...a decent respect to the opinions of
mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
What “political bands” are the writers referring to in paragraph above?
Look at the paragraph above. List three rights the Declaration says cannot be taken away.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just
powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes
destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute
new Government.
According to the paragraph above, where do governments get their power?
According to the paragraph above, what was the king’s purpose in taking away the colonists’ rights?
(We) solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be
Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown,
and that all political connection between them and that State of Great Britain, is and ought to be
totally dissolved.
Read the paragraph above. When does the Declaration say the colonies would be independent?